The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.

I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once.